Enterprise Performance Management – State of the art

Written by Aurel Brudan on July 6, 2010. Posted in Around the world, Articles, Organisational performance

Performance Management is one of the most dynamic business disciplines today. Its evolution accelerated over the last 20 years and due to the large number of concepts it employs and unstructured body of knowledge, having a comprehensive view of the current state of its evolution is rather challenging. One way of achieving this is by monitoring the pulse of the discipline as reflected in studies and survey reports covering performance management topics (Brudan, 2010).

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World Cup South Africa 2010 – most buzzed players in the social media

Written by Adelina Chelniciuc on June 21, 2010. Posted in Around the world, Articles, KPI

As one of the latest Nielsen (2010) studies related to World Cup 2010 reveal, the most buzzed player in the social media is the Ivory Coast striker and star player Didier Drogba (3.40%). He is followed quite at a long distance by the Netherlands star Arjen Robben (1.60%), with Argentinean and world best player in 2009, Lionel Messi on the third spot (1.40%), and Portuguese playmaker Cristiano Ronaldo on the fourth position only (1.10%).

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Castrol Index and the World Cup South Africa 2010

Written by Adelina Chelniciuc on June 19, 2010. Posted in Around the world, Articles, KPI

In a previous blog post “Performance in sport: a new era has began” we reviewed the ascent of sport in popular culture, bringing together entertainment, business and healthcare. Football in particular became in the last two decades a veritable industry that started to attract increased attention from analysts and media.

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Investment bankers views on the 2010 World Cup South Africa – England likely to win the World Cup

Written by Adelina Chelniciuc on June 17, 2010. Posted in Around the world, Articles, KPI

In a previous blog post we presented the Goldman Sachs Investment Research Division report on “The World Cup and Economics 2010”. Besides forecasting football scores and rankings, the report also presents some interesting correlations between the FIFA world rankings and two economic indicators: Gross National Product (GNP) per capita and Growth Environment Scores (GES).

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Investment bankers views on the 2010 World Cup South Africa – The World Cup and Economics 2010

Written by Denisa Călin on June 15, 2010. Posted in Around the world, Articles, Individual Performance

The 2010 report on the The World Cup and Economics was recently released by the Global Investment Research Division of Goldman Sachs. Besides forecasting football scores and rankings, the report presents an analysis regarding the correlation with other types of indicators within the World Cup context.

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